The IAS lists in-progress and completed dissertations within the last five years on all subjects of Italian art. If you are an active member and would like your dissertation listed, please add it to your profile.
Prehistoric / Etruscan Art and Architecture
No disserations currently listed in this category.
Roman / Late Antique Art
Barber, Samuel, ""The Fitting Face of Empire": Palaces and Power in the Early Middle Ages" (Cornell University, B Anderson), 2021
Early Medieval / Romanesque / Gothic Art
Bordi, Giulia Anna Bianca, "Gli arredi liturgici della Puglia centro-settentrionale nel Medioevo (XI-XIVsecolo): da Bari alla Terra di Bari" (Sapienza Università di Roma, M. Gianandrea), 2022
Bruhns Alonso, Cosette, "Worth A Thousand Words: Turning to Visual Art in Medieval Italian Literature" (University of Chicago, J. Steinberg), 2020
Platts, Christopher, "Paolo Veneziano and the Patronage, Design, and Reception of Venetian Gothic Painting" (Yale University, ), 2019
Ruppar, Rebecca, "Early Franciscan Painted Panels as a Response to the Italian Cathars" (University of Missouri, A. Stanton), 2020
Renaissance / Baroque Art
Bell, Maggie, "Healing Walls: Visualizing Bodily, Social and Spiritual Care in the Pellegrinaio Frescoes at the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena" (University of California, Santa Barbara, R. Williams (deceased) and M. Meadow), 2019
D'Addio, Sophia, "Painted Organ Shutters in Renaissance Italy" (Columbia University, M. Cole), 2020
Evrard, Clarisse, ""Ut maiolica epica" : painting chilvaric world in 16th century Italian maiolica" (University of Lille - École du Louvre, P. Michel and T. Crépin-Leblond), 2019
Feller, Deborah, "Traces of Trauma in the Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera" (Independent scholar, ), 2023
Foner, Daria, "Collaborative Endeavors in the Career of Andrea del Sarto" (Columbia University, M. Cole), 2020
Gravanis, Konstantinos, "Sources, Functions and Meaning of Imagery in the Vatican's Raphael Rooms" (University of Kent, T. Henry, B. Thomas), 2022
Grimmett, Kendra, "Grappling with Hercules: Masculinity and the Male Body in Rubens's Time" (University of Pennsylvania, L. Silver), 2022
Hanson, Emily J., "Spectacular Ambition: The Failure and Reception of Leonardo da Vinci's Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza" (Washington University in St. Louis, W. Wallace), 2021
Hilliam, Amanda, "Beyond Painting: Carlo Crivelli's Celestial Fictions" (, ), 2020
Kim, Allison, "Vasari as Painter: Imitation, Invention, and Professional Identity" (, ), 2019
McCabe, Sophia Quach, "Hans Rottenhammer in Venice: Networking in Style between Italy and Germany" (University of California, Santa Barbara, M. Meadow), 2019
McKenzie, Louisa, "Waxing devotion: the economic and devotional lifecycles of wax ex-votos in Florence 1300-1500" (The Warburg Institute, R. Duits), 2023
O'Reilly, Catherine, "Painting, Performance, Senses, and Space: Immersing the Viewer in the Last Supper Refectory Frescoes of Fifteenth-Century Florence:" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2022
Offill, Ashley, "The Corsini Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine: Framing the Relic Cult of Saint Andrea Corsini in Baroque Florence" (University of Kansas, S. Cornelison), 2020
Overpelt, Laura, "“By a single painter”. The organization and representation of Giorgio Vasari’s decorative projects in the Palazzo Vecchio" (Open Universiteit, Heerlen, P. Van den Akker), 2022
Paganussi, Caroline, "Bologna la dotta: The University and the Visual Arts in the Age of the Bentivoglio, 1463-1512" (University of Maryland, College Park, M. Gill), 2021
Reddicks Pignataro, Megan, ""The Facture of Non-Linear Perspective in Quattrocento Florence"" (Temple University, M. Hall), 2024
Schockmel, Bryn, "The Historical Procession of Andrea Mantegna's "Triumphs of Caesar": From Mantua to Hampton Court" (Boston University, J. Cranston), 2019
Scott, Braden, "Antiquity Expanded: Ancient West Asian and North African Architecture in European Art, c. 1450-1570" (McGill University, A. Vanhaelen; C. Henry), 2023
Upart, Anatole, ""Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750”" (University of Chicago, N. Atkinson), 2021
Vigotti, Lorenzo, "The Origin of the Renaissance Palace: Private Architecture during the Florentine Oligarchy, 1378-1432" (Columbia University, F. Benelli), 2019
Wallace, Catharine, "“Cultivating Egyptian All’Antica Imagery as Emblems of Rome in the Sixteenth Century”" (Temple University, Tyler School of Art, M. Hall), 2020
Zappella Papanastassiou, Christine, "Monochrome Painting and the Period Body in Andrea del Sarto's Cloister of the Scalzo" (University of Chicago, Charles E. Cohen), 2022
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth-Century Art
Zerbi, Tommaso, "The Tricolour, Shield, and Cross of Savoy: ‘Sabaudian Medievalism,’ the Risorgimento, and Neo-Medieval Architecture in Italy, c.1814–1864" (University of Edinburgh, A. Bremner), 2021
Zerbi, Tommaso, "The Tricolour, Shield, and Cross of Savoy: ‘Sabaudian Medievalism,’ the Risorgimento, and Neo-Medieval Architecture in Italy, c.1814–1864" (University of Edinburgh, A. Bremner), 2021
Modern / Contemporary Art
Brown, Laura, "The architectural design and planning legacies of the European Summer Olympic Games 1948-2012" (Northumbria University, M. Cresciani), 2020
Federici, Valeria, "Network Culture in Italy in the 1990s and the Making of a Place for Art and Activism." (Brown University, M. Riva; C.J. Martin; E. Lincoln), 2019
Lobskaia, Anastasiia, "Interpretation of the Classical Antiquity in the Works of the Italian Artists of the 20th Century" (Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Anna Petrakova), 2023
Spina, Davide, "Christian Democrats, Architecture and Capitalist Development in Post-War Italy: Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI), 1945–75" (ETH Zurich, Laurent Stalder, Adrian Forty, Mia Fuller), 2021